Holder for kegs



(No Model.)

0. A. MANKER.

HOLDER FOR KEGS, BARRELS, &c;

No. 378,968. 8 Patented Mar. 6, 1888.

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CARY A. MANKER, OF LOUISVILLE, NEBRASKA.

HOLDER FOR KEGS, BARRELS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 378,968, dated March 6, 1888. Application filed September 5, 1887. Serial No. 248,852. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GARY A. MANKER, of Louisville, in'the county of Cass and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Holder for Handling Kegs, Barrels, 850., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7

' The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved holder specially adapted for retail stores, and serving to suspend a keg or barrel filled or partly filled with nails or other articles under the counter, so as to facilitate the removal of the articlesin the keg 'or barrel preparatory to measuring or weighing them.

The invention consists of a rope passing over a pulley held on the under side of the counter or other support, and of two clamps connected with said rope, and of which one engages the bottom rim of the barrel or keg and the other is held on the head of the barrel or keg.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improvement, showing it in position under a counter and supporting a keg partly filled with nails,and shown in section; and Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the head-clamp.

On the under side of the top board of a counter, A, is held, in suitable bearings, a pulley, B, over which passes a rope, O, secured by one end to an eye, D, of the bottom clamp, E, provided with a hook, E, adapted to engage the bottom rim of the barrel orkeg F, which contains nails or other articles to be sold directly from the barrel or keg.

The rope 0 passes from the bottom clamp, E, to an eye, G, formed in the head-clamp H, provided with a hook, I, adapted to engage the head end of the barrel F, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The rope 0, after passing through the eye G, is returned, and passes through the eye D, after which it passes over the pulley B, and

then the free end'of said rope is fastened to an arm, J, formed on the head-clamp H, as

that the nails or other articles contained in' the barrel are shaken out through the headopening into a scale-pan or other receptacle held below the end of the barrel. The operator is also enabled, by taking hold of the bandle K, to suspend the barrel in different positions, as the fulcrum of the barrel changes with the center of gravity on account of the rope O passing over the pulley B, so that the operator is thus enabled to tilt the barrel F forward easily, so that the articles contained in the barrel will fall out; or the barrel may be tilted backward, thus preventing the articles in the barrel from falling out. Thus it will be seen that the barrel, by manipulating the handle K of the head-clamp H, can be placed in any desired position under the counter A, thereby facilitating the removal of the articles contained in the barrel, or the placing of the barrel in such a position that said articles cannot fall out.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a holder for handling kegs, barrels, &c., the combination, with a pulley hung on the under side of a support, of a rope passing over said pulley, a bottom-clamp to which one end of said rope is secured, said clamp engaging the bottom end of the barrel to be suspended, and a head-clamp through which said 'rope passes loosely and to which the free end of the rope is secured, said clamp engaging the head of the said barrel, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a holder for handling kegs, barrels, 850., the combination, with a pulley held on the under side of a support, of a rope passing over said pulley, a bottom-clamp having an eye in which one end of the said rope is fastened and being provided with a hook engag- In a holder for handling kegs, barrels, 1o ing the bottom rim of the barrel, and a head- &c., a head-clamp formed with a hook to enclalnp provided with an eye through which gage the barrel, an eye and an arm to receive said rope passesloosely, ahook formed on said the rope, and a handlearm, substantially as head-clamp and adapted to engage the head shown and described. end of the barrel, and an arm formed on said head-clamp and serving to secure the free end of the rope, substantially as shown and described.

GARY A. MANKER. Witnesses:

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